Matteo Zampieri is a research scientist at the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change - CMCC. HIs research interests are on: atmospheric climate modelling, land processes and land-atmosphere interaction, extreme events. He has published 19 contributions in peer-reviewed journals. He has been awarded for his research on models and processes of the land-atmosphere interaction, his contribution to the second MedCLIVAR book and active participation to MedCLIVAR activities.